East Asian Studies Research Guide for Undergraduate Students

Foreign Documents on Modern China

US State Department Files on China

• Records on Political Relations Between China, the U.S. and Other Countries, 1910-1929
• Records on Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan, 1930-1939
• China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1940-1944
• State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports: China, 1941-1947
• Country Intelligence Reports on China, 1941-1947
• Records of the US State Department Division of Chinese Affairs, 1944-1961
• Records of the US State Department Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
• Confidential US State Department Central Files, Asia, 1960-1969
• Subject Files of US State Department’s Office of the Republic of China Affairs (1951-1978)
• Political Relations Between China, the United States and other Countries, 1910-1929
• Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in China: Reports & Correspondence of U.S. Military Intelligence, 1918-1941
• General George C. Marshall’s Mission to China, 1945-1947
• Records of the U.S. Information Service in China: Chinese Press Reviews and Summaries, 1944-1950
• Economic Cooperation Administration’s Relief Mission in Post-War China, 1946-1948
• CIA Papers on China and the Soviet Union, 1953-1973
• Records of the National Council for United States-China Trade 1973-1983
• Foreign Office Files for China: All of the British Foreign Office's files on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, 1919-1980
• Nineteenth-Century Documents on European Diplomacy with Asia
• German Foreign Relations and Military Activities in China, 1919-1935
• 2013 PRC Criminal Procedure Law and Related Regulations (Yale University Law Library)

General Foreign Relations with Modern China

• Sources Related to Foreign Relations of the United States
• British Foreign Relations Documents

English-Language Newspapers

• Chinese Historical Newspapers - Full text of 22 late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspapers published in China
• China Press
• North China Daily News
• North China Herald
• North China Desk Hong List

Missionary Sources

Europeans in Late Imperial and Twentieth-Century China

The link below, for Mobilizing East Asia, is a module that is part of Brill's online collection of primary sources in translation. It includes the following Serials:

• Israel’s Messenger, 1904-1941 (A Jewish Paper devoted to the interests of Jews and Judaism in the Far East, published in Shanghai)
• Manchuria Daily News, 1912-1940
• Manchuria (monthly supplement to the Manchuria Daily News), 1922-1936, 1940-1941
• Manchuria (fortnightly to the Manchuria Daily News), 1936-1939
• Manchuria Information Bulletins, 1932-1944
• Contemporary Manchuria, 1937-1939
• Contemporary Japan, 1932-1953
• The Trans-Pacific, 1933-1938
• Japan Advertiser, 1929-1932
• Japan Times Weekly, 1938-1943
• Nippon Times Weekly, 1943-1944
• Japan News-Week, 1938-1941
• the XXth Century, 1941-1944
• Hongkong News, 1941-1945
• China Weekly Review, 1947-1949
• China Monthly Review, 1952-1953

It also includes many scanned books on various subjects relating to East Asian history and culture.